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What is direct democracy? | Ancient Athens

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...
The Conversation

The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong

The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad. According to Dio, one form of ...
Greek Reporter

Would Ancient Greek Philosophers Consider Today’s Governments True Democracies?

Whether our Western political systems are true democracies or republics can be answered by examining ancient Greek philosophy ...
The New York Times

For Early Democracy, Theater Was a Catalyst

In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special report on ...
PBS

Athens: Birth of Democracy

Archaeologists investigate the dramatic origins of democracy in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago. Follow archaeological investigations into the dramatic origins of democracy in Greece 2,500 years ago.